Diversity

The gender pay gap shows that when it comes to wages, the opportunity for women to earn a good life is stunted. New Census data released this week found that women working full-time made $41,554 in 2016, compared to $51,640 for men. […]

Three women who worked at Google are suing the company over its salary practices, accusing the search giant of discriminating against its female employees by systematically paying them less than men who do similar jobs. […]

The study’s results showed that white actors dominated the TV landscape in all aspects. Nearly 70% of TV series regulars are white, and at least 96% of TV shows have at least one white series regular. Mono-racial AAPI make up 4.3%, while […]

In his re-election bid, WGA West secretary-treasurer Aaron Mendelsohn is calling on Hollywood to adopt the NFL’s so-called “Rooney Rule,” which requires teams to interview minority candidates for all head coaching and senior […]

There’s more to be gleaned from the numbers than just how deep the pockets of A-list actors are. They show, among other things, that Hollywood’s superhero-industrial complex is mainly a boy’s club, that television, as has long been suspected […]

The controversial memo written by James Damore, a 28-year-old former Google engineer, rattled Silicon Valley last weekend when it became public and stirred a fierce debate about diversity in the workplace. The company fired him for “perpetuating […]

Internet giant Google has fired the male engineer at the center of an uproar in Silicon Valley over the past week after he authored an internal memo asserting there are biological causes behind gender inequality in the tech industry. […]

The acclaimed web series “Transparent,” created by producer/writer/director Jill Soloway (“Six Feet Under,” 2001-05, and “United States of Tara,” 2009-11), has made waves on television and in the LGBTQ community. […]